Origins of wartime terms traced through history
The article explains how fifth column originated in the Spanish Civil War era, Trojan horse in ancient Greece, quisling after Norway’s 1940 fall, sabotage from European peasants using wooden sabols, and spy from Old English French terms meaning to see, with espionage the modern full form.
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Let the Lawyers Worry Let the Lawyers Worry
A farmer asked Judge G. B. Greene to excuse him from jury duty citing shortness of breath. The judge said all he had to do was sit around. The text then shifts to a note about butterflies seeing movements only five or six feet away.
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